Wii Boxing, to Burn Calories Playing

Technology that seemed a total enemy of the physical activity, This reversing its role to get to the side and take by the hand of physical exercise.

The Wii, the famous Nintendo video game console is one of the tools that more applications it has found in the field of fitness and health.

New research aimed to demonstrate how technology can help increase the realization of physical activity, particularly among children and adolescents.

The study compared a session with bag of Boxing and the video game by Nintendo, Wii Boxing, which allows you to move and Dodge your opponent in a real way.

Evaluated students from the University of Cleveland should do 30 minutes from his work at the boxing bag and on the Wii, while analysed their oxygen consumption, cardiac parameters and others through the use of a pedometer.

The results show that the work is a little harder on the stock exchange, but only burn about 3 calories per minute, which is not a significant difference.

While bag offers resistance and therefore allows you to spend a little more energy, greater increase heart rate and achieve a training more intense, the Wii encourages more students to introduce an opponent that promotes competition.

In addition, as the Wii resembles the shadow boxing, i.e. features shock resistance, not tired nor fatigue both players, so training with the video game time can be significantly higher.

In a generation where gamers rule and the technology continues to grow, it is important to rescue these applications that can contribute to alleviate prevalent health problems.

On the other hand, if children and adolescents are motivated to exercise through the use of a video game it is flattering for your health and better than sitting watching TV doing nothing.

Once again, doing something is better than nothing, that’s why, if sometimes we only want to distract us and delve into a world of unreal but competitive, enjoy playing at the same time that we tonificamos our muscles and burn calories.